Monthly Archives: January 2025

Articles, Community News, Curry, Law, Local Government

Curry County Commissioners Seek Legal Help To End Dispute With Sheriff

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Thumbnail: Curry County Sheriff’s seal. Right: Curry County’s seal.

Curry County commissioners are seeking help from a judge to reopen communications with Sheriff John Ward.

The Board of Commissioners filed a declaratory judgment suit against the sheriff in Curry County Circuit Court on Jan. 13, the county announced Wednesday. Officials say they hope to “resolve long-standing disagreements” with the sheriff about their roles and responsibilities.

“Filing suit was an option of last resort that was taken after the Board and county legal counsel made multiple requests for cooperation, information and records from the sheriff’s office that were not satisfactorily fulfilled,” the county stated in its press release.

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The New Tolowa Dee-ni’ Regional Tribal Justice Center – Redwood Voice Community News

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January 24th, 2025 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: Caltrans District 1 Update; information on traffic delays on Elk Valley Road; the Harbor District loses out on disaster grant money for the Whaler’s Island groin reconstruction; the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation opens a new Regional Tribal Justice Center; the update on Del Norte High School sports; medication assisted treatment programs come to Curry County Jail; with the local CSEA chapter not ratifying their contract, DNUSD and the teachers union reopen negotiations; CDFW announces 15 salmon and steelhead watershed projects that will receive funding; students in Happy Camp make blankets for victims of the fires down South; some of the items discussed at the Josephine County Board of Commissioners meeting; and cuts to Medi-Cal are expected to affect rural Californians the most. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.

We’re broadcasting on KFUG 101.1FM and kfugradio.org! every day at 12PM, with a rebroadcast at 5PM. We’re also airing on KZZH 96.7FM at 6AM, and KCIW 100.7FM at 6PM!

Today’s newscast image is courtesy of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation, which has been edited.

Articles, Community News, Local Government

Crescent City Council Moves Forward with Preferred 2025 Downtown Farmers & Artisans Market Location

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Thumbnail photo courtesy of Del Norte & Tribal Lands Community Food Council.

The Wednesday farmers market will be under new management and in a new home when the season starts this June.

Crescent City councilors gave their blessing to the Del Norte and Tribal Lands Community Food Council to move the Downtown Farmers & Artisans Market to the old Bank of America parking lot at 2nd and H streets for the 2025 season.

“I just want to encourage everybody that in the Bank of America parking lot, there is great potential, great growth for that farmers market,” said Cristina’s Mexican Restaurant owner Claudia Hooper, who was a neighbor to its previous 3rd and K street location. “And an opportunity for a lot of people, who we don’t necessarily think of, that will be able to use that farmers market.”

During the start of its 2024 season, the downtown market, then operated by the Downtown Divas, was set up at the parking lot adjacent to the Del Norte County Library at Front and K streets. But due to the active construction along Front Street, the Divas determined it could no longer continue in that location, according to the city staff report. 

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Funding Fish Protection & Restoration – Redwood Voice Community News

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January 23rd, 2025 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; information on traffic delays on Elk Valley Road; Community System Solutions hold a workshop/tour of the Crescent City Harbor; with the local CSEA chapter not ratifying their contract, DNUSD and the teachers union reopen negotiations; more Oregon firefighters are sent down to support California’s Firefighting efforts; CDFW announces 15 salmon and steelhead watershed projects that will receive funding; students in Happy Camp make blankets for victims of the fires down South; Providence and the union of over 5,000 nurses striking return to the bargaining table once again; some of the items discussed at the Josephine County Board of Commissioners meeting; and cuts to Medi-Cal are expected to affect rural Californians the most. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.

We’re broadcasting on KFUG 101.1FM and kfugradio.org! every day at 12PM, with a rebroadcast at 5PM. We’re also airing on KZZH 96.7FM at 6AM, and KCIW 100.7FM at 6PM!

Today’s newscast image is courtesy of NOAA Fisheries, which has been edited.

Articles, CC Harbor, Community News, Infrastructure

Harbor District Tour Uncovers Challenges With Whaler Island Groin And Sea Level Rise

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Thumbnail photo: Moffatt & Nichol representative Younes Nouri discusses the Citizens Dock and seawall reconstruction projects during a tour of Crescent City Harbor property on Wednesday. | Photo by Jessica Cejnar Andrews

Though their tour of the Crescent City Harbor District meant to show its potential, Mike Bahr and Younes Nouri delivered unwelcome news on Wednesday — the port lost out on FEMA disaster dollars to shore up the storm-ravaged Whaler Island Groin.

Despite showing the federal agency images of damage the groin took during severe storms in January 2023, FEMA officials declined the Harbor District’s request for disaster assistance, saying the district couldn’t show enough records that it had maintained the structure before the storm, according to Nouri, project manager and coastal engineer with Moffatt & Nichol.

“They want to see what it looked like before that storm happened and then what it looked like after,” he said. “It’s like an insurance adjuster.”

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More Oregon Firefighters Sent to Aid SoCal – Redwood Voice Community News

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January 22nd, 2025 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; information on traffic delays on Elk Valley Road; Crescent City Harbor gives a workshop tour to investors and the public; an overview of the People’s March; more Oregon firefighters get sent to aid with SoCal fires; industrial pollutants were possibly the cause of snow in Medford on Monday; the Oregon Nurses Association continue their strike; and Proposition 12 may be repealed by the upcoming Farm Bill. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.

We’re broadcasting on KFUG 101.1FM and kfugradio.org! every day at 12PM, with a rebroadcast at 5PM. We’re also airing on KZZH 96.7FM at 6AM, and KCIW 100.7FM at 6PM!

Today’s newscast image is courtesy of Flickr, via the Curry Coastal Pilot’s article, which has been edited.

Alerts, CC Harbor, Community News, Infrastructure

Crescent City Harbor Workshop, Tour To Focus On Development Opportunities

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Thumbnail photo by Amanda Dockter

Two weeks into their renewed contract with the Crescent City Harbor District, representatives of Community System Solutions will lead a workshop and a tour of the port on Wednesday.

CSS representatives will be joined by Moffat & Nichol project managers and Steve Opp, managing director for Commercial Real Estate Development Enterprises, or CREDE.

The workshop’s goal is to provide commissioners and the public a “complete overview” of the construction projects underway at the harbor and to help the Harbor District Board figure out how to spend $1 million in leftover federal Hazard Mitigation Grant Program dollars.

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DNUSD’s Classified Staff Reject Tentative Agreement; District, DNTA Begin Mediation Process

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Thumbnail image includes the DNUSD and CSEA logos taken from the district’s Facebook page and Great Northern Chapter #178’s Facebook page.

Negotiations between Del Norte Unified School District and the union that represents its classified employees are set to start over after members of the union’s local chapter rejected a tentative agreement.

The rejection of the proposed agreement between DNUSD and the California School Employees Association Great Northern Chapter #178 comes as contract discussions between the district and the Del Norte Teachers Association head toward mediation.

It also prompted Jenna Lussier, lead negotiator for CSEA Great Northern #178, to step down from the union’s negotiating team.

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Del Norters Take To The Streets For Saturday’s People’s March – Redwood Voice Community News

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January 21st, 2025 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; information on traffic delays on Elk Valley; this last month multiple threats have sent Del Norte Schools into lockdown; the People’s March speakers voice their concerns on the return of the Trump Administration; Del Norte Supervisors approved the transfer of one million dollars from CalPERS to create a trust fund with the private firm PARS; the local Jewish Community Celebrated the fourth night of Hanukkah last Saturday; recent Medford snowfall may have been caused by industrial pollutants; and what the Trump administration could mean for proposition 12. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.

We’re broadcasting on KFUG 101.1FM and kfugradio.org! every day at 12PM, with a rebroadcast at 5PM. We’re also airing on KZZH 96.7FM at 6AM, and KCIW 100.7FM at 6PM!

Today’s newscast image is courtesy of Redwood Voice Reporter Ethan Caudill-DeRego, which has been edited.

Activism, Articles, Community News, Crescent City

Crescent City People’s March Calls For Unity, Safeguarding the Vulnerable As Trump Starts Second Term

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Thumbnail photo by Jessica Cejnar Andrews; video by Bryce Evans, Gavin Van Alstine and Ethan Caudill-DeRego

Hilda Yepes Contreras fought back tears as she described how anti-immigration rhetoric during the first Trump administration reached her family.

“My grandson, he was 8 and he was in school and kids went up to him and said that he needed to go back to Mexico,” she said. “And he said, ‘But I don’t live there. I live here.’ And they said, ‘Well, you need to go back or you’re going to get your head cut off.’”

Speaking to more than 100 people at the Crescent City Cultural Center on Saturday — ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration — Yepes Contreras said her family wasn’t alone in enduring the racist rhetoric that was the norm the last time Trump was in the White House.

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